Farm Subsidy information
Mellette County, South Dakota
Total Subsidies in Mellette County, South Dakota, 2021
Subsidy Recipients 21 to 40 of 326
Recipients of Total Subsidies from farms in Mellette County, South Dakota totaled $6,935,000 in in 2021.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Total Subsidies 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Christopher John Letellier | Norris, SD 57560 | $57,156 |
| 22 | Wade Tucker | Wood, SD 57585 | $55,710 |
| 23 | Harvey Bierema | White River, SD 57579 | $50,338 |
| 24 | Clifford W Olson | White River, SD 57579 | $48,715 |
| 25 | Jake Ring & Sons Inc | Norris, SD 57560 | $47,246 |
| 26 | Duane Earll | Wood, SD 57585 | $47,167 |
| 27 | Rueben Ring | Norris, SD 57560 | $45,838 |
| 28 | Adrian Land & Cattle Company | White River, SD 57579 | $45,522 |
| 29 | Scott Astleford | White River, SD 57579 | $45,274 |
| 30 | Travis Lee Kuil | Carter, SD 57580 | $44,387 |
| 31 | Joel Koskan Farms LLC | Wood, SD 57585 | $43,799 |
| 32 | Burton Dimond | Witten, SD 57584 | $42,062 |
| 33 | Mike Brockhoft | Winner, SD 57580 | $38,836 |
| 34 | Ronald L Bouman | White River, SD 57579 | $35,720 |
| 35 | William E Adrian | White River, SD 57579 | $35,070 |
| 36 | Cliff Valburg | White River, SD 57579 | $35,052 |
| 37 | Ben Dimond | Wood, SD 57585 | $34,484 |
| 38 | William R Bachelor | White River, SD 57579 | $34,208 |
| 39 | Dawn Denine Mcclanahan | Winner, SD 57580 | $34,159 |
| 40 | Dustin D Schmidt | White River, SD 57579 | $34,130 |
* USDA data are not "transparent" for many payments made to recipients through most cooperatives. Recipients of payments made through most cooperatives, and the amounts, have not been made public. To see ownership information, click on the name, then click on the link that is titled Ownership Information.
** EWG has identified this recipient as a bank or lending institution that received the payment because the payment applicant had a loan requiring any subsidy payments go to the lender first. In 2019, the information provided to EWG by USDA began to include the entity that received the payment, rather than the person or entity that applied for it, which was previously provided. This move to shield subsidy recipients from disclosure enables USDA to further evade taxpayer accountability. Six percent of subsidy dollars went to banks, lending institutions, or the Farm Service Agency.”
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